This social media activist seminar, on Saturday, April 18th, at 9:00 a.m., Collin College, Frisco, will provide an introduction on how to effectively use social media
to communicate with voters.
The seminar will include a general overview on using social media for voter outreach and activation and focus specifically on how to use Facebook.
We will cover tips and tricks on using social media for outreach and to welcome people to help spread the word about Democratic candidates and issue positions!
All activists, volunteers, precinct chairs, and anyone interested in helping elect democrats in 2016 and beyond are encouraged to attend!
A conservative video blogger with over a million views on YouTube said this week that he would likely vote for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton because he was terrified that a Republican president would take away his affordable health insurance.
James Webb, a 51-year-old YouTube Tea Party celebrity who devotes his “Hot Lead” channel to rightwing rants, revealed he is torn over which party to vote for in the 2016 election.
“And I’m serious because I asked myself, ‘Which party has helped me out
the most in the last, I don’t know, 15 years, 20?’ And it was the
Democrat [SIC] Party,” Webb lamented. “If it wasn’t for Obama and that
Obamacare, I would still be working.”
“With Obamacare, I got to retire at age 50 because if it wasn’t for Obamacare, I would have had to work until I was 65 and get on Medicare because health insurance is expensive when you’ve got medical problems,” he continued.
“But you know, the Republican Party, they haven’t done nothing for
me, man. Nothing,” he remarked. “So, I’m leaning toward voting for
Hillary unless something major comes up.”
Web continues, “I don’t trust the Republicans
anymore because they’re wanting to repeal the Obamacare. And I don’t
want them to do that, man, because then I’ll have to go to work again.
My life’s already planned out.”
“Just a tough decision,” Webb sighed. “I voted for Republicans for 32
years, I’m a charter member of my Tea Party Patriots chapter. I’m also a
veteran of the U.S. Army under Reagan, when Reagan was in. That was
great when Reagan was in there.”
“Things have changed. So unless the Republicans change with it, I’m
probably going to have to swing my vote over toward Hillary.”
Tuesday night, Congress overwhelmingly passed a $214 billion bill to reform the way the Medicare program pays doctors. President Obama congratulated both chambers of Congress on passing the legislation by 392-37 in the House and 92-8 in the Senate, saying in a statement that he will be “proud to sign it into law.”
Passage of this major piece of legislation is regarded by all sides as a “historic move” and the perhaps the “biggest legislative accomplishment of the year” for the 114th Congress, which has so far been crippled by gridlock, mostly with internal factions of the Republican members of Congress.
The 2016 presidential election may become the first election where more campaign advertising dollars are spent for social media and other web ads than for newspaper ads, direct mail, or telemarketing. If predictions are correct, web advertising spending pegged at almost $1 billion will be second after television/cable advertising spending.
In a Reuters report released Tuesday, online political advertising is projected to quadruple by 2016.
Predictions for 2016 show online advertising will consume only 8 percent of media budgets, or $955 million. But the growth is substantially up from $270 million in 2014 and just $14 million in 2010.
The main decision point for social media and other web ads is which voters will see what ads. Candidates have more tools than ever to micro target specific specific type of message specific types of voters.
Web ad targeting works like this: First, partisan data firms, like i360 and Data Trust on the right and Catalist and TargetSmart on the left, compile detailed analytic databases with demographic and geographical information on about 190 million registered voters.
Next, digital targeting firms like DSPolitical, CampaignGrid, and Targeted Victory, relate voter data to commercially available data like Internet tracking histories and real estate and tax records.For example: That, allows a Democratic candidate to display targeted web ads to voters in Dallas who had typed “climate change” into Google or typed “Democrat” in their Facebook profile.
This social media activist seminar, on Saturday, April 18th, at 9:00 a.m., Collin College, Frisco, will provide an introduction on how to effectively use social media
to communicate with voters.
